Meaning of OVERWHELMING
| Pronunciation: | | `owvur'welming
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- [adj] very intense; "politics is his consuming passion"; "overwhelming joy"
- [adj] so strong as to be irresistible; "an overpowering need for solitude"; "the temptation to despair may become overwhelming"; "an overwhelming majority"
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| | Synonyms: | | consuming, intense, irresistible, overpowering, resistless |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \O`ver*whelm"ing\, a.
Overpowering; irresistible. -- {O`ver*whelm"ing*ly}, adv.
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